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SKIPPING COMMERCIALS
Your VCR’s Commercial Advance
feature
lets you quickly skip over commercials record-
ed onto a tape while you view it, without having
to continually press
FAST-F
or
C/A SKIP/ZERO
.
During recording, Commercial Advance stores in
memory the locations of the beginnings and end-
ings of commercials. After recording is over, the
VCR replays the tape and marks the beginnings/
endings on the tape itself.
Then, when you play back the recording, you can
set the VCR so it detects and skips over the
marked commercials automatically
or
only when
you press a key.
Notes:
• The recording must be at least 15 minutes
long for Commercial Advance to work.
• The effectiveness of Commercial Advance
varies with the different methods stations
use to broadcast commercials. It is possi-
ble that Commercial Advance might not
work with every broadcast you watch.
• Commercial Advance might skip part of a
program if there are frequent dark and
quiet scenes.
• Commercial Advance does not erase com-
mercials from the tape; it simply marks
them.
Turning Commercial Advance
Marking On/Off
Follow these steps to have the VCR automati-
cally memorize the beginnings and endings of
commercials while it records a program, so it
can mark the tape later.
1. Press
MENU/ACTION
to display the main
menu.
2. Repeatedly press
or
to highlight
SET
UP
FEATURE
, then press
.
3. If necessary, repeatedly press
or
to highlight
SET
UP
COMMERCIAL ADV
.
4. Press
. You see:
5. If necessary, repeatedly press
or
to highlight
C/A
RECORD
, then press
to select
ON
or
OFF
.
6. When you finish, press
MENU/ACTION
twice.
If you selected
ON
, the VCR asks if you want it
to mark commercials when you stop recording
or turn the VCR off.
• If you want the VCR to mark commercials
when you stop recording, press
1
.
• If you want the VCR to mark commercials
when you turn it off, press
2
.
Notes:
• It takes several minutes for the VCR to
mark the recording.
• The VCR marks commercials in a timer
recording after the recording stops (see
“Automatic Timer Recording” on Page 43).
• If the interval between two timer recordings
is not long enough to allow commercial
marking, the VCR waits until after the next
timer recording.
OFF
C I AL ADV.
ATURE
- - - -
Y
KEY
SET UP COMMERC I AL ADV.
C / A RECORD
: ON
C / A PLAYBACK : AUTO
SET : KEY
SELECT : KEY
END : ACT I ON KEY
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